Hello. I’m Stephen Thomas, Front-End Web Developer.

The Astera Institute

I single-handedly coded astera.org with designs and illustrations from Eitan Zohar and Calvin Barrett. This is a Wordpress site for an organization that coordinates many projects with multiple stakeholders, many of whom access the backend in differing ways.

The site has integrations with Lever, Google Analytics, Cloudflare, WPEngine, and Advanced Custom Fields. It’s coded in PHP, SCSS, JavaScript, and HTML.

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Writing Portfolio

This is a site I made for myself for my content writing and copywriting work. It’s coded in Vue and uses continuous deployment to update via Netlify.

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The COVID Store

This is a mock-up of an eCommerce store that sells everything you might need in a 2020-era pandemic. It has a fully-functioning shopping cart that updates as you click. The page also updates the store's inventory count as you add items to your cart, to let you know exactly how few rolls of toilet paper are left!

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Detective Pokemon

A quiz game that tests your knowledge of Pokemon powers — or else just your blind luck! You're choosing a Pokemon to solve a real crime somewhere in the UK, as supplied by the UK police API. The Pokemon also comes from its own API. The app uses conditional rendering in React to lead you through the gameplay.

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Essay Idea DB

This is a proof-of-concept for a real service I believe is in demand — an easy way for writers, especially journalists, to know what their readers want to read about. The site uses Firebase to persistently store data in a serverless back end, and uses is coded in React, which makes displaying a randomly generated essay suggestion a breeze.

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Hoot The Flower

Inspired by my total lack of cannabis knowledge, lol, I created an app that asks the user for a movie title, extracts the movie's plot, sends that plot to a machine learning sentiment analyzer, and, based on the movie's 'vibe', suggests a matching strain of cannabis.

Three APIs, and many API calls, are used to coordinate all this, and the UI is meant to simulate the dynamically-generated suggestions of state-of-the-art machine-learning tools like GPT-3. Check it out!

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CB F*ing T

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a therapeutic framework that emphasizes data collection to correct the reality distortions all humans are prone to. This app facilitates that data collection in a fun way, using 'themes' to match the user's preferred interactive 'vibe'.

You input your day's mental-health data and the app tabulates your answers and gives you a quantitative summary of your day.

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Shoe Kloset

This is a multi-page PSD conversion using SASS from a client brief that looks fantastic across all devices.

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Bikerland

This is a PSD conversion from a client brief that looks absolutely gorgeous across all devices.

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WorkBC: Virtual Interviews

For Sandbox, with WorkBC as the client, I wrote the script for two videos about how to do virtual job interviews.

Here is Sandbox's write-up of it, with the video.

Love Death Steve

This is a Twitter bot that uses Markov chaining to combine Shakespeare's sonnets, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and a year of my own journals to produce mash-up tweets.

Here is a Prezi presentation on it (that I made for Juno College's bootcamp), and here are the original instructions I followed, if you want to make your own bot.

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